CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Vice President Mike Pence will attend Sunday’s attempted launch of Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station, News 6 partner Florida Today reported.
A brief statement released by the White House released Saturday said the vice president and Second Lady Karen Pence were coming the Kennedy Space Center to view the launch.
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Pence and the second lady are scheduled to leave Washington, D.C. at 4:25 p.m., arrive at Cape Canaveral at 6:20 p.m., watch the launch then head back to the nation’s capital at 8:10 p.m.
The launch will send four astronauts from KSC to the ISS in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. It’s scheduled for 7:27 p.m. Sunday.
It is the first fully operational mission under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, following a successful test flight earlier this year. That mission, dubbed “Demo-1,” was the first launch of humans from U.S. soil since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.